Well, Michael Moore was on Democracy Now yesterday , I think it was
yesterday, for the whole hour and David Swanson is pretty much right on the
mark. Moore did start out supporting Sanders, however, and he did say that
he had some issues with Clinton. The point of the film is to beat Trump at
the polls.
Miriam
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Michael Moore Owes Me $4.99
Oct
28
Michael Moore Owes Me $4.99
Written by davidswanson Tag: Book and Movie Reviews [1], Elections [2],
Media [3]
Michael Moore has made some terrific movies in the past, and Where to Invade
Next may be the best of them, but I expected Trumpland to be (1) about
Trump, (2) funny, (3) honest, (4) at least relatively free of jokes
glorifying mass murder. I was wrong on all counts and would like my $4.99
back, Michael.
Moore's new movie is a film of him doing a stand-up comedy show about how
wonderfully awesome Hillary Clinton is -- except that he mentions Trump a
bit at the beginning and he's dead serious about Clinton being wonderfully
awesome.
This film is a text book illustration of why rational arguments for lesser
evilist voting do not work. Lesser evilists become self-delusionists. They
identify with their lesser evil candidate and delude themselves into adoring
the person. Moore is not pushing the "Elect her and then hold her
accountable" stuff. He says we have a responsibility to "support her" and
"get behind her," and that if after two years -- yes, TWO YEARS -- she
hasn't lived up to a platform he's fantasized for her, well then, never
fear, because he, Michael Moore, will run a joke presidential campaign
against her for the next two years (this from a guy who backed restricting
the length of election campaigns in one of his better works).
Moore maintains that virtually all criticism of Hillary Clinton is nonsense.
What do we think, he asks, that she asks how many millions of dollars you've
put into the Clinton Foundation and then she agrees to bomb Yemen for you?
Bwahahaha! Pretty funny. Except that Saudi Arabia put over $10 million into
the Clinton Foundation, and while she was Secretary of State Boeing put in
another $900,000, upon which Hillary Clinton reportedly made it her mission
to get the planes sold to Saudi Arabia, despite legal restrictions -- the
planes now dropping U.S.-made bombs on Yemen with U.S. guidance, U.S.
refueling mid-air, U.S. protection at the United Nations, and U.S. cover in
the form of pop-culture distraction and deception from entertainers like
Michael Moore.
Standing before a giant Air Force missile and enormous photos of Hillary
Clinton, Michael Moore claims that substantive criticism of Clinton can
consist of only two things, which he dismisses in a flash: her vote for a
war on Iraq and her coziness with Wall Street. He says nothing more about
what that "coziness" consists of, and he claims that she's more or less
apologized and learned her lesson on Iraq.
What? It wasn't one vote. It was numerous votes to start the war, fund it,
and escalate it. It was the lies to get it going and keep it going. It's all
the other wars before and since.
. She says President Obama was wrong not to launch missile strikes on
Syria in 2013.
. She pushed hard for the overthrow of Qadaffi in 2011.
. She supported the coup government in Honduras in 2009.
. She has backed escalation and prolongation of war in Afghanistan.
. She skillfully promoted the White House justification for the war on
Iraq.
. She does not hesitate to back the use of drones for targeted
killing.
. She has consistently backed the military initiatives of Israel.
. She was not ashamed to laugh at the killing of Qadaffi.
. She has not hesitated to warn that she could obliterate Iran.
. She is eager to antagonize Russia.
. She helped facilitate a military coup in Ukraine.
. She has the financial support of the arms makers and many of their
foreign customers.
. She waived restrictions at the State Department on selling weapons
to Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Qatar, all
states wise enough to donate to the Clinton Foundation.
. She supported President Bill Clinton's wars and the power of the
president to make war without Congress.
. She has advocated for arming fighters in Syria and for a "No Fly"
zone.
. She supported a surge in Iraq even before President Bush did.
That's just her war problem. What about her banking problem, prison problem,
fracking problem, corporate trade problem, corporate healthcare problem,
climate change problem, labor problem, Social Security problem, etc.?
Moore parts company from substantive critique in order to lament unproven
rightwing claims that Hillary Clinton has murdered various people. "I hope
she did," screams Moore. "That's who I want as Commander in Chief!" Hee hee
hee.
Then Moore shamelessly pushes the myth that Hillary tried to create
single-payer, or at least "universal" healthcare (whatever that is) in the
1990s. In fact, as I heard Paul Wellstone tell it, single-payer easily won
the support of Clinton's focus group, but she buried it for her corporate
pals and produced the phonebook-size monstrosity that was dead on arrival
but reborn in another form years later as Obamacare. She killed single-payer
then, has not supported it since, and does not propose it now. (Well, she
does admit in private that it's the only thing that works, as her husband
essentially blurts out in public.) But Moore claims that because we didn't
create "universal" healthcare in the 1990s we all have the blood of millions
on our hands, millions whom Hillary would have saved had we let her.
Moore openly fantasizes: what would it be like if Hillary Clinton is
secretly progressive? Remember that Moore and many others did the exact same
thing with Obama eight years ago. To prove Clinton's progressiveness Moore
plays an audio clip of her giving a speech at age 22 in which she does not
hint at any position on any issue whatsoever.
Mostly, however, Moore informs us that Hillary Clinton is female. He
anticipates "that glorious moment when the other gender has a chance to run
this world and kick some righteous ass." Now tell me please, dear world, if
your ass is kicked by killers working for a female president will you feel
better about it? How do you like Moore's inclusive comments throughout his
performance: "We're all Americans, right?"
Moore's fantasy is that Clinton will dash off a giant pile of executive
orders, just writing Congress out of the government -- executive orders
doing things like releasing all nonviolent drug offenders from prison
immediately (something the real Hillary Clinton would oppose in every way
she could).
But when he runs for president, Moore says, he'll give everybody free drugs.
I'll tell you the Clinton ad I'd like to see. She's standing over a stove
holding an egg. "This is your brain," she says solemnly, cracking it into
the pan with a sizzle. "This is your brain on partisanship."
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Michael Moore Owes Me $4.99
Oct
28
Michael Moore Owes Me $4.99
Written by davidswanson Tag: Book and Movie Reviews [1], Elections [2],
Media [3]
Michael Moore has made some terrific movies in the past, and Where to Invade
Next may be the best of them, but I expected Trumpland to be (1) about
Trump, (2) funny, (3) honest, (4) at least relatively free of jokes
glorifying mass murder. I was wrong on all counts and would like my $4.99
back, Michael.
Moore's new movie is a film of him doing a stand-up comedy show about how
wonderfully awesome Hillary Clinton is -- except that he mentions Trump a
bit at the beginning and he's dead serious about Clinton being wonderfully
awesome.
This film is a text book illustration of why rational arguments for lesser
evilist voting do not work. Lesser evilists become self-delusionists. They
identify with their lesser evil candidate and delude themselves into adoring
the person. Moore is not pushing the "Elect her and then hold her
accountable" stuff. He says we have a responsibility to "support her" and
"get behind her," and that if after two years -- yes, TWO YEARS -- she
hasn't lived up to a platform he's fantasized for her, well then, never
fear, because he, Michael Moore, will run a joke presidential campaign
against her for the next two years (this from a guy who backed restricting
the length of election campaigns in one of his better works).
Moore maintains that virtually all criticism of Hillary Clinton is nonsense.
What do we think, he asks, that she asks how many millions of dollars you've
put into the Clinton Foundation and then she agrees to bomb Yemen for you?
Bwahahaha! Pretty funny. Except that Saudi Arabia put over $10 million into
the Clinton Foundation, and while she was Secretary of State Boeing put in
another $900,000, upon which Hillary Clinton reportedly made it her mission
to get the planes sold to Saudi Arabia, despite legal restrictions -- the
planes now dropping U.S.-made bombs on Yemen with U.S. guidance, U.S.
refueling mid-air, U.S. protection at the United Nations, and U.S. cover in
the form of pop-culture distraction and deception from entertainers like
Michael Moore.
Standing before a giant Air Force missile and enormous photos of Hillary
Clinton, Michael Moore claims that substantive criticism of Clinton can
consist of only two things, which he dismisses in a flash: her vote for a
war on Iraq and her coziness with Wall Street. He says nothing more about
what that "coziness" consists of, and he claims that she's more or less
apologized and learned her lesson on Iraq.
What? It wasn't one vote. It was numerous votes to start the war, fund it,
and escalate it. It was the lies to get it going and keep it going. It's all
the other wars before and since.
. She says President Obama was wrong not to launch missile strikes on
Syria in 2013.
. She pushed hard for the overthrow of Qadaffi in 2011.
. She supported the coup government in Honduras in 2009.
. She has backed escalation and prolongation of war in Afghanistan.
. She skillfully promoted the White House justification for the war on
Iraq.
. She does not hesitate to back the use of drones for targeted
killing.
. She has consistently backed the military initiatives of Israel.
. She was not ashamed to laugh at the killing of Qadaffi.
. She has not hesitated to warn that she could obliterate Iran.
. She is eager to antagonize Russia.
. She helped facilitate a military coup in Ukraine.
. She has the financial support of the arms makers and many of their
foreign customers.
. She waived restrictions at the State Department on selling weapons
to Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Qatar, all
states wise enough to donate to the Clinton Foundation.
. She supported President Bill Clinton's wars and the power of the
president to make war without Congress.
. She has advocated for arming fighters in Syria and for a "No Fly"
zone.
. She supported a surge in Iraq even before President Bush did.
That's just her war problem. What about her banking problem, prison problem,
fracking problem, corporate trade problem, corporate healthcare problem,
climate change problem, labor problem, Social Security problem, etc.?
Moore parts company from substantive critique in order to lament unproven
rightwing claims that Hillary Clinton has murdered various people. "I hope
she did," screams Moore. "That's who I want as Commander in Chief!" Hee hee
hee.
Then Moore shamelessly pushes the myth that Hillary tried to create
single-payer, or at least "universal" healthcare (whatever that is) in the
1990s. In fact, as I heard Paul Wellstone tell it, single-payer easily won
the support of Clinton's focus group, but she buried it for her corporate
pals and produced the phonebook-size monstrosity that was dead on arrival
but reborn in another form years later as Obamacare. She killed single-payer
then, has not supported it since, and does not propose it now. (Well, she
does admit in private that it's the only thing that works, as her husband
essentially blurts out in public.) But Moore claims that because we didn't
create "universal" healthcare in the 1990s we all have the blood of millions
on our hands, millions whom Hillary would have saved had we let her.
Moore openly fantasizes: what would it be like if Hillary Clinton is
secretly progressive? Remember that Moore and many others did the exact same
thing with Obama eight years ago. To prove Clinton's progressiveness Moore
plays an audio clip of her giving a speech at age 22 in which she does not
hint at any position on any issue whatsoever.
Mostly, however, Moore informs us that Hillary Clinton is female. He
anticipates "that glorious moment when the other gender has a chance to run
this world and kick some righteous ass." Now tell me please, dear world, if
your ass is kicked by killers working for a female president will you feel
better about it? How do you like Moore's inclusive comments throughout his
performance: "We're all Americans, right?"
Moore's fantasy is that Clinton will dash off a giant pile of executive
orders, just writing Congress out of the government -- executive orders
doing things like releasing all nonviolent drug offenders from prison
immediately (something the real Hillary Clinton would oppose in every way
she could).
But when he runs for president, Moore says, he'll give everybody free drugs.
I'll tell you the Clinton ad I'd like to see. She's standing over a stove
holding an egg. "This is your brain," she says solemnly, cracking it into
the pan with a sizzle. "This is your brain on partisanship."
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